Archive for October, 2011
I watched with amazement as some upper east side habitue crawled out of his rent controlled hole and peppered a Best Buy employee with questions about the store’s classical music section
She turned to me and asked: ” What’s a turntable?”
Me: “You see the Vinyl section? That’s what you play then on.”
BBY employee : “oh.”
I swear he reminded me of this guy:
Now its no secret I don’t post as often as I should, but after reading my friend Andy’s blog, Brooklyn Food Monkey (http://www.brooklynfoodmonkey9.com/) I was inspired to write something. Unfortunately by buddy Jeff aka Sweet Dick Willie decided to make a point about Dan Ackroyd’s accomplishments since Ghost busters which I derided in a previous post. (Mind you this is from last December so it further shows how fucking lame I am.) So I have cut and pasted Jeff’s reply with a few retorts of my own. I swear I’ll try and write something original soon.
Since Ghostbusters part1. Dan has done:
2012 Ghostbusters III (characters) (announced) This has been in development since before Clinton was President. There’s a better chance of a Martin & Lewis reunion and they’re both dead.
2009 Ghost Busters (Video Game) (characters) Voiceover work? Are you kidding me? If that’s not coasting, I don’t know what is.
2004 Extreme Ghostbusters: The Ultimate Invasion (Video Game) (characters) See above
2002 Extreme Ghostbusters: Code Ecto-1 (Video Game) (characters) See above (See how I keep repeating myself and do nothing new? This is coasting)
1998 Saturday Night Live: The Best of Steve Martin (TV special) (writer – uncredited) This was from the 70’s for god’s sake.
1998 Blues Brothers 2000 (film The Blues Brothers / written by) Took too long to do this. But it was ok.
1997 Extreme Ghostbusters (TV series) Have no idea what this is. Shows how big a success it was.
– Witchy Woman (1997) (characters)
– The Sphinx (1997) (characters)
– Back in the Saddle: Part 2 (1997) (characters)
– Back in the Saddle: Part 1 (1997) (characters)
– Heart of Darkness (1997) (characters)
See all 40 episodes »
1997 The Blues Brothers Animated Series (TV series) See 2009 Ghost Busters Video Game comment
1993 Coneheads (written by) A loooonnnnggggg drawn out sketch from SNL made into a movie. Why not Fred Garvin:Male Prostitute?
1993 The Best of the Blues Brothers (video documentary) (writer) Coasting. (all the way to the bank, but still coasting)
1986-1991 The Real Ghost Busters (TV series) He wasn’t even in this for God’s sake. And I doubt he had much to do with it besides cash a check or two.
– 20,000 Leagues Under the Street (1991) (characters)
– Attack of the B-Movie Monsters (1991) (characters)
– Not Now, Slimer! (1991) (characters)
– The Treasure of Sierra Tamale (1991) (characters)
– The Magnificent Five (1990) (characters)
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1991 Nothing But Trouble (screenplay) Crap. One of the worst pieces of shit ever on film. The best thing about it was the Digital Underground song.
1989 Ghostbusters II (characters / written by) Further proof that every sequel is not necessary/better than the original
1987 Dragnet (written by) a half an hour of this is enough.
1986 Ghostbusters (Video Game) (characters) See Video game comments above.
1986 The Best of Dan Aykroyd (video) (writer) Great Compilation of his skits on SNL . Once again- coasting
1985 Spies Like Us (screenplay / story) See Nothing But Trouble. I actually fell asleep on this in the theater.
1985 The Best of John Belushi (video) (writer) He gets a check for sketches written in the 70’s. I rest my case.
Dan and another famous coaster - Eddie Murphy.
Rodneyrants 